Transcript Citing Sources in the Text

Citing Sources in
the Text
Use a combination of
signal phrases and
parenthetical references
to differentiate your
source material from
your own ideas and
position.
Sources for material in this presentation:
Ackley, Katherine Anne. Ed. Perspectives on Contemporary Issues: Readings
Across the Disciplines. 5th ed. Boston: Wadsworth Cengage 2009. Print.
Hacker, Diana, and Nancy Sommers. A Pocket Style Manual. 6th ed. Boston:
Bedford/St. Martin’s 2012. Print.
Use the author’s full name and the article name in
the first mention if you are using an important
source. Use page numbers for print sources.
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First mention:
According to Jessica Reaves in “What the
Rest of Africa Could Learn about AIDS,” “The
Senegalese government has taken a
remarkably active role in the sex education of
its citizens” (454).
Second mention:
Reaves maintains that “comprehensive sex
education—including information about
condoms and how to use them—is one of the
most important weapons in the fight against
AIDS” (455).
Online or electronic sources sometimes have
unclear authorship and lack page numbers.
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Paraphrase:
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2005 study by the American
Management Association and ePolicy
Institute found that seventy-six percent of
companies monitor employees’ use of the
web, and the number of companies that
block their access to certain web sites
has increased twenty-seven percent
since 2001.
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Quote:
 According
to the American Management
Association, “Technology makes it
possible for employers to gather
enormous amounts of data about
employees.”
Electronic Works Cited Entry
--article from a website w/ an
organization as an author
 American
Management Association and
ePolicy Institute. “2005 Electronic
Monitoring and Surveillance Survey.”
American Management Association.
Amer. Management Assn., 2005.
Web. 15. Feb. 2013.
Citing Government Documents
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In the text:
Online monitoring by the United States Department of
the Interior over a one-week period found that
employees’ use of “sexually explicit and gambling
websites . . . accounted for over 24 hours of Internet use”
(3).
In the Works Cited:
United States. Dept. of the Interior. Office of Inspector
General. “Excessive Indulgences: Personal Use of the
Internet at the Department of the Interior.” Office of
Inspector General. Dept. of the Interior, Sept. 1999.
Web. 20 May 2010.
Article from an online journal
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In the text:
Chris Gonsalves reports in “Wasting Away on the
Web,” that “more than fifty percent of the
employees in the office who are online are not
focused solely on work-related projects, but are
also sending personal email, shopping or using
Facebook or other social media sites.”
In the Works Cited:
Gonsalves, Chris. “Wasting Away on the Web.”
eWeek.com. Ziff Davis Enterprise Holdings, 8
Aug. 2005. Web. 16 Feb. 2011.